McCullum a smart investment for NSW
Brendon McCullum, the New Zealand wicketkeeper, has agreed to play for New South Wales in Australia’s Twenty20 final
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Brendon McCullum, the New Zealand wicketkeeper, has agreed to play for New South Wales in Australia’s Twenty20 final. While the move has been criticised, Peter Roebuck says in the Sydney Morning Herald it’s not so much a signing as an investment.
Twenty-overs cricket has changed the hierarchy of the game. It has also encouraged nations to open doors. Lots of Australians tootle off to India in search of their fortunes. Immersed in hypocrisy, even blasts cannot deter them. Lots of foreign sportsmen try their luck Down Under. Dwight Yorke has turned out for Sydney FC. Irishmen have illuminated various footy sides, Poms bolster league line-ups, foreign nags enter lucrative antipodean races, a Japanese horse won the Melbourne Cup a few years ago and so forth. Australian sport survived. Often standards were raised.
In the Herald Sun Michael Horan writes about Dirk Nannes, Victoria’s potent Twenty20 bowler, and says he could soon claim to be the only person to represent Australia at cricket and skiing World Cups.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo